This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Floppy Drive hacks
Article: 7596 of alt.hackers From: cpierce1@ed7590.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Floppy Drive hacks Date: 4 Apr 1995 15:25:01 GMT Organization: Ford Motor Co., Powertrain Systems Lines: 25 Approved: Bunny@Easter.com Distribution: world Message-ID: 3lrocd$s14@eccdb1.pms.ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ed7590.pto.ford.com Status: RO
ObFloppyHackByAccident:
The Atari User's Group in Genessee County (GAG) had arranged for a
"show"
at the local mall (1985?). One booth had a video camera setup and we were
digitalizing people's pictures and printing them out. In our haste, we
had daisy-chained drives together without really paying attention to where
the cables were run. We wound up doing this:
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CPU#1 Drive#1 Drive#2 CPU#2
Oddly enough, both computers (CPU#[12]) could access BOTH drives. But
not at the same time, though.
Later on, we were trying to figure out where a particular file was (that
was in Drive#1 above). And two different people went to CPU#1 and CPU#2
and did a disk directory and found the file, went to pull the disk out and
...Ta-da!...It was the same drive. We were quite shocked after we cleared
up the mess and figured out what we had done...
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